Clifford Anderson
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Clifford Anderson
ParticipantHi, Bobby, welcome!
ParticipantHowdy, Eddie, welcome!
ParticipantDiggin’ it, man!
You seem to have a natural skill with mixing and mastering, your sounds have tended to have very distinct separation, no muddiness in what I’ve listened to – something that can be a very difficult lesson for some of us to learn.
The level on the… hrm… high end kinda chirpy synth bell… hope that’s a good enough description, a little loud, gets kinda annoyin’ toward the end of the track to me… but that’s about all I can come up with.
Good one!
ParticipantGlad I can help!
ParticipantBasically, to use Mixed in Key to detect the Key, you must always be connected to the internet. In order to protect their software from piracy, they only put the key detection code on their own servers. Some people, myself included, take some exception to onerous DRM – if their servers ever go down, or if they go out of business, then we will no longer be able to use the software we purchased. I don’t care for that.
Unfortunately, they are the best thing goin’ in terms of accuracy, and their prices ARE pretty fair.
With a remix, you end up re-inventing a LOT more of the music yourself. When I do a mashup, it’s similar to how I DJ where I’m just mixing two tracks together in a way that works. When I’m remixing, I am creating new drumbeats, new basslines, completely restructuring the song, changing its genre, etc. A LOT more work. It is frequently suggested to start with mashups because you can get the feel for how the music fits together before you’re trying to make your own parts. You can do it otherwise, but it will be harder.
ParticipantMy pleasure. It’s a little hard to know what to say, as I tend more toward breaks than house, so there may well be times that I say something that is wrong because it would be correct in the styles I work in, but not in the styles you work in – so, take everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, I say with a grain of salt.
That said, glad to help as best I can.
ParticipantOh, I’d definitely say just map your controller to use Stems… no point buying something just to play with them. I’ll be honest with you, they’re not really all that exciting. Remix decks are a lot more exciting, in my opinion… Stems are just “mute the drums, now drop ’em back in… drop the vocals… now gap them by muting them real quick.” I would be dang concerned about buying an F1 for something that you may well not find exciting.
ParticipantJonathan –
I think you are being a lot more confrontational than is necessary.
You’re not being mistreated. Your behavior, though, is not defensible. You broke a rule.
You don’t know what rule that is, and unfortunately, Terry (as the moderator who moderated you) is a working DJ who tours a >LOT,< so he doesn’t check the forum every day so he can fill you in on what you did wrong. However, at this point, I think you are most definitely breaking more of the rules now, especially rule #1 and rule #2.
This is not a paid support service, this is a bunch of DJs helping each other out. Nobody owes anyone anything. I’m a member too, so is Terry, so is Chuck… they aren’t paid either, by the way – they’re just long time members of the community who spend their time FOR FREE trying to help out.
So, why are you treating other members in a way that you yourself would be offended by?
ParticipantI dig it. There are a few places where the music and chorus seem to clash a little bit, but only in a few spots (I suspect, if you’re anything like me, you’re thinkin’ “Yeah, I know exactly where he’s talkin’ ’bout”). The mix itself is pretty clear, again, and musically I find it more interesting than the last one.
ParticipantSlim – Yeah, I was surprised to find that Serato didn’t. Traktor certainly does. I own Serato, as it came with my TM8, but it’s not my primary software so I had no idea.
Participant… and it is such a GREAT time to be a cheapskate DJ. I would say 95% of my playlist is free tracks that from Soundcloud. I give as well as I get, my tracks to date have always been either free or, at worst, PWYW with a $0 minimum. (With no guilt given for takin’ it as a freebie, either – PLEASE! If you enjoy my music, take a copy!)
ParticipantChuck – Yeah, you do a good job in the edit reasons, though it might be worth stating it in the actual post as well, since most people have what in tech circles my friends and I call “UI blindness,” where they don’t see everything that’s presented to them due to information overload… they’re so focused on the (generally gentle for a forum, IMO) chewing out that they don’t spot the reason in the little gray box under their post.
Plus, I think Terry forgot to put something meaningful in there.
Participant3 cents? Dang inflation!
February 24, 2016 at 10:57 am in reply to: New Single: Freakytown (Free download) [Ghetto Funk] #2360191ParticipantYeah, got a new track that I am close to done with… Ghetto Swing this time, real happy with it. I expect I’ll be releasing it next week.
I’m really not succeeding in anything that is full spectrum that doesn’t completely ruin the bass – I tried with my current track, and in the end, I instead just expanded the range of the low band cut… it sounds horrible any other way, unfortunately. I may have to start paying closer attention to where the bass is actually at, musically, and start making room for the drums that way, ’cause sidechain compression just doesn’t sound good in my mixes… maybe if I compose in such a way that the bass is just not present when the kick is.
I’ll try to do it with a limited higher band to get the transient and see if that helps. I do already have a very quick release, but it still is just too pumping.
Something to work on.
ParticipantTodd – Nice gaming rig, more blasting power than most DJs have though.
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